RJA

Welcome to the RJA consultancy website.

RJA  is a specialist research and development practice covering all the issues that arise at the interface of mental health and housing services; and the gaps between.

We advise and are working with central (and regional) government departments and agencies, seeking ways to improve communication, co-operation and co-ordination between housing and mental health services, at policy and strategic levels, and in day-to-day practice.

We also work with housing and support services, local authorities and mental health trusts and others to develop and deliver new initiatives at what we believe to be now the cutting edge of modernization in public health and community care.


Of particular interest currently is the idea of a “psychologically informed environment” - a concept that we developed originally for our work with the Dept of Communities and Local Government and the National Mental Health Development Unit for their recent (2010) guidance on meeting the psychological and emotional needs of homeless people.  We also contributed extensively to the follow up operational guidance   on developing PIEs, published in Spring 2012.

Look out also for the special issue on PIEs in the  spring edition of the Journal of Housing Care and Support.


This work on PIEs nevertheless forms only one part of a wider project that we have been undertaking with the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists on identifying and promoting the key characteristics of an “enabling environment”. For more on these issues, see Publications and Thinkpieces.


We have also undertaken evidence and good practice evaluations, and small-scale research in areas such as action learning, needs analysis and opportunity mapping which are immediately relevant to this key aspect of the social determinants of health.

Nevertheless our interests are not restricted to commissioned projects. We undertake considerable amount of pro bono work, and we continue to use this web site - pro tem - both to promote innovative practice, and to  signpost interested parties towards other valuable sources and resources.

For more details and examples of our extensive interests, consultancy services, and our recent and future research and development work programme, browse through the site via the buttons to the left.


Main office:
9, Arwenack Avenue,
Falmouth,
Cornwall TR11 3JW

Tel: 01326 313110       
Mobile: 0797 9864418

Email: office@rjaconsultancy.org.uk

RJA Consultancy
For news of developments, and especially of progress with the new site, see New at RJA.

Keywords: housing : mental health : accommodation : strategy: strategic  needs analysis : research: policy development : Supporting People; opportunity audit : psychologically informed environment; enabling environment; social determinants of health