Open Arms provides mental health and wellbeing support to anyone who has served at least one day of continuous fulltime service in the ADF and their immediate families and Reservists who have rendered border protection or disaster relief service, or been involved in or witnessed a serious training accident, and their immediate families.

Eligibility criteria

In 2017, our eligibility criteria was expanded and now includes:

• current serving Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force personnel
• ADF personnel transitioning to civilian life
• ex-serving members
• partners and children of serving and ex-serving personnel
• ex-partners who are co-parenting
• reservists with one day continuous full time service or hazardous service.

Where there has been a death of a service person, parents and siblings may be able to access the service. We provide free and confidential counselling and support.

Eligibility matrix

The following documents provides a quick overview of eligibility criteria.

See also