CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Cape County Park South hosted the 5th Annual “A Day in the Park with Green Bear” event to help raise awareness of abuse prevention programs.
The 5th annual A Day in the Park with Green Bear started at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 25.
“It’s going to be a fun day! The Green Bear Project wants to give back to the community and bring awareness to these important topics,” says Alix Gasser, Executive Director of Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence. “Every year we get bigger and better. Everyone that attends has an awesome time!”
The event featured free snow cones, hot dogs, a coloring contest and a chance to visit with members of several organizations.
Education and Training Coordinator Lisa Stone said it was inspiring to see people show support for their cause.
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“To know that community is out here to support us, and to support Green Bear, and what we do, and how to try to help children to keep this from happening to another child like it did with Tylen, it is so heart-filling,” Stone said. “It’s a dream come true, it really is.”
Some of the organizations in attendance at the 2026 event were the Safe House of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau Public Library, Discovery Playhouse, Girl Scouts, SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence (SADI), Cape Girardeau Fire Department, Cape Girardeau Police Department, Jackson Fire Department, Craftsmen Cares, SEMO Suicide Prevention Inc., BACA, just to name a few.
The event is part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.
For more information about The Green Bear Program or the event, please visit www.greenbearmo.org, or for SEMO-NASV at www.semonasv.org .
If you have or are experiencing sexual violence, you can call SEMO-NASV’s 24-hour crisis hotline at (877) 820-6278.
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