
Maccabi LIFE is a bold community initiative which was created in 2019 and developed to create sustainable health change by promoting the benefits of a healthy lifestyle through education, eventing and unstructured activity.
Our goal is to pioneer health and wellbeing solutions and pursue new opportunities outside of our Sport program to enrich the physical and mental literacy and health of the Jewish community.
MENTAL WELLNESS TOOLKIT FOR YOUR FAMILY
Maccabi and Maccabi LIFE share with you all an informative and useful Mental Wellness Toolkit to assist you and your family through this devastating and difficult time faced by our community.
The family toolkit includes articles on Grief, Understanding the stress effects on major events, understanding common reactions to a major event, Supporting someone through grief and loss, helping yourself, others and children after a major event, dealing with overwhelm about world events and helping children to deal with grief.
Due to a lack of scoliosis screening and awareness, Maccabi LIFE recognised an important opportunity to educate and create awareness on this topic in our community.
Before government funding was removed nationally in the 1990’s, screening for scoliosis used to take place in schools. As a result, screening of children no longer takes place and early detection through testing is missed. This lack of testing has resulted in many children going undiagnosed with their condition worsening over time to the point where they may face the difficult choice of having to undergo major spinal surgery.
We partnered with renowned Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Angus Gray to develop and implement a national community awareness campaign on scoliosis.
Please click on the link below to watch our scoliosis educational videos and learn all about the most relevant topics of interest, and be sure to download the Scoliosis Self-Test Guide & Family Toolkit.
Our aim is to make testing and early detection part of every family’s annual health and wellness routine