{"id":133947,"date":"2022-12-21T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=133947"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:29:23","slug":"brotherly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/12\/21\/brotherly-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Brotherly love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Kurt Holden, director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/public-safety\/police\">public safety<\/a> at Wright State University, and his brothers Kris and Kyle were growing up in foster care, they would often go for months without seeing each other, missing out on many of the things other children took for granted, especially around the holidays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ten years ago the brothers created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosteringohio.org\/?fbclid=IwAR3X0-SwYgGTlFR0Cm3dOc6VYgtXq4PtwpEfO_xuTQhGyJfYVNnoA-JxzT4\">Fostering Ohio<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that assists foster children after emancipation and families in need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout their childhood, the Holden brothers would be placed in numerous foster homes, with Kris moving into his eighth address before high school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAll I looked forward to was getting visitations with my brothers,\u201d said Kris Holden, who attended Wright State in 2007 and majored in business management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This absence was felt even more during the holidays. In addition to missing each other\u2019s company, they often missed out on presents under the tree, as many children in the foster care system do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA lot of times me and my brothers only received the necessities, socks, t-shirts and underwear,\u201d said Kurt Holden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through Fostering Ohio, the brothers try to help as many Dayton area foster children as they can to have the Christmas they deserve, by collecting donations and purchasing toys on their wish lists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is an excuse to get together and do something really awesome and spend some quality time together,\u201d said Kurt Holden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fostering Ohio has helped several hundred children over the past 10 years. This year\u2019s goal is to raise $10,000 but they say that doesn\u2019t fill the need of the 15,000 children that are in foster care in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t really scratched the surface on the need that\u2019s out there. So, every year we\u2019re trying to grow and aim to do something even bigger,\u201d said Kyle Holden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The brothers will deliver gifts to 50 children and four families on Christmas Eve. The Wright State community has donated almost $1,500 to Fostering Ohio this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More information about Fostering Ohio is available on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fosteringohio\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fosteringohio\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago the Holden brothers created Fostering Ohio, a nonprofit organization that assists foster children after emancipation and families in need. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/12\/21\/brotherly-love\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":133951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2025,725,727,715,2024,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-service","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-staff","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133947"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134122,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133947\/revisions\/134122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}