“…One analysis of 600 HMO patients found that those who received home-based crisis intervention had approximately four times fewer behavioral health readmissions than those patients who did not receive in-home services (Pigott & Trott, 1993). Home-based care has been found to have good treatment outcomes for (a) people with serious mental illness (Warner, 1997;Wasylenki, Gehrs, Goering, & Toner, 1997), (b) substance abusers (Gruber, Fleetwood, & Herring, 2001), as well as (c) children, adolescents, and their families (Evans et al, 2003;Henggeler, Schoenwald, Borduin, Rowland, & Cunningham, 2003;Sheidow & Woodford, 2003).…”