Ex-service organisations
The Department is currently undertaking a review of DVA-funded ESO Advocacy and Welfare Services, including the BEST, TIP and Veteran and Community Grants programs.
This section contains information about how DVA works with ex-service organisations to assist the veteran community.
Grants: full list of grants available to ex-service and community organisations, desinged to assist the veteran community. Includes details of past grants awarded.
The BEST program: BEST – Building Excellence in Support and Training – is part of the government’s commitment to support the role of ex-service organisations’ (ESO) pensions and welfare practitioners and advocates and those national ESOs who provide administrative and representational support within the veteran and service community. The BEST program assists by providing monetary support to ESO practitioners.
TIP: The Training and Information Program (TIP) provides training and information for welfare and pensions officers who are volunteers working within ex-service organisations (ESOs). TIP training is delivered to enable them to provide the best possible advice to veterans and former serving members of the defence forces seeking their services.
Includes handbooks and information on TIP courses in various states.
Contact DVA
See: DVA contact details on this website
DVA would like to encourage participation from ESO members in the Vietnam Veteran's Family Study. Click on the image below for more information.
