Moms coming together to support one another [Video]

FORTY FORT, Pa. — At Be Well NEPA in Forty Fort, occupational therapist and co-owner Mary Vanesko showed Newswatch 16 around the pediatric rehabilitative therapy and wellness center. It is one of four locations and is a collaboration between Vanesko’s Well-Nurtured Development and Pottsville native Chelsea Zimmerman’s Lingua LLC.

“We realized that moms really needed a place to connect. One of the biggest things we hear is, ‘We don’t know where to go for such and such.’ And it’s just plugging in those services for them that gives them peace of mind,” Vanesko said.

Over the past year, Vanesko teamed up with Melissa Obuch, the founder and director of MamaBird, a nonprofit that provides diapers and feminine hygiene products to women in Luzerne and Wyoming …