More Good Days, Together

West Clermont Middle School is coming together to support the Brave Like Me Foundation through this year’s Unity Walk and student-led book fundraiser. This campaign is about more than raising money. It is about students using their voices, leadership, and teamwork to make a real difference for children and families facing complex medical conditions.

Brave Like Me was created in honor of Brayden Otten and exists to create moments of courage, comfort, joy, and connection for children with complex medical conditions, chronic diseases, and disabilities. The foundation’s work comes to life through three main programs: Brayden’s Books, Brave Friends, and Brave Pets. Brayden’s Books provides uplifting and empowering stories to children in hospitals, Ronald McDonald Houses, and treatment settings. Brave Friends creates inclusive adventures and friendship-based experiences. Brave Pets helps reunite hospitalized children with their beloved pets through a mobile family pet reunion program.

At WCMS, this project fits the heart of our service-learning vision: helping students discover that their presence matters and that their unique talents can meet real needs in the world around them. Our school’s theme, “More Good Days, Together,” reminds us that courage is not only found in big moments. It is also found in showing up, encouraging others, and choosing to help. This campaign grows out of that same spirit of resilience, unity, and support.

What are we fundraising for?

Students are helping sell books to raise funds that support the mission of Brave Like Me. Proceeds from this campaign help fund programs that bring encouragement, connection, and meaningful experiences to children and families who are navigating difficult medical journeys. Donations help support book distribution, adventures and friendship experiences, and programs that bring healing comfort to kids who may be missing home, normalcy, and even their pets.

Why books?

Books can inspire bravery, hope, kindness, teamwork, perseverance, and compassion. Brave Like Me’s Brayden’s Books program is built around carefully chosen stories that help children feel seen, encouraged, and strengthened. This is one of the reasons a book fundraiser is such a strong fit for our school community. Students are not just selling something. They are helping place uplifting stories into the hands of children who may need courage the most.

How this campaign works

Students are participating as part of a larger school-wide effort connected to our Unity Walk and our service-learning focus this spring. Families and supporters can purchase books through the campaign, and those books will be hand-delivered back to them by the students. If you would rather simply support the cause, you can also choose to make a donation instead of purchasing books.

That means you can support in the way that feels best for you:

Buy books - for every $20 you donate you can choose either Finnegan the Football or I Love You More Than The Moon and All the Stars book as your special thank you gift.
- Books will be delivered by each student
Make a direct donation
Share this fundraiser and encourage your friends to raise money on behalf of a student
Help WCMS create more good days, together

Why your support matters

When you support this campaign, you are doing two important things at once.

First, you are helping Brave Like Me continue its work serving children with complex medical conditions through books, friendship experiences, and pet-centered connection. Brave Like Me describes its mission as creating moments of uninhibited joy for children and families facing serious medical challenges. That mission has already been highlighted publicly in the Spectrum News story about the foundation and Brayden’s legacy.

Second, you are giving WCMS students the chance to practice leadership in a real and meaningful way. This campaign is tied to our effort to build a culture where students show up for one another, celebrate resilience, and understand that every story can hold strength. From the Unity Walk to our “Sources of Strength” focus, this project is helping students learn that service is not abstract. It is personal, practical, and powerful.

Thank you for supporting our students and Brave Like Me

Thank you for helping our school turn compassion into action. Whether you purchase books or make a donation, you are helping students lead with purpose and helping Brave Like Me continue to serve children and families who need encouragement, joy, and support.

Special Notes:

Please include your phone number in case we have trouble getting your thank you gift to you.

For supporters and sponsors wishing to send a personal check or Donor Advised Fund distribution, please complete this online form and select "Check" as your Payment Option and mail it to:

Brave Like Me Foundation
ATTN: Brave Open
361 Circlewood Ln
Cincinnati, OH 45215

Check Memo: WCMS (Add Student Name Deserving Credit)

Brave Like Me Foundation is a A 501(c)(3) Public Charity
EIN 92-1218185

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