UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 FORM 8-K

 CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 9, 2015

The Providence Service Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (520) 747-6600

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On November 9, 2015, we issued a press release containing certain financial information for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. As noted in the press release, we have provided non-GAAP financial measures (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share), the reasons we have provided such measures and a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measure. Readers should consider the non-GAAP measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, the measure of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. In this regard, GAAP refers to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. A copy of the press release is being furnished hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

On our earnings call scheduled for November 10, 2015, we intend to provide certain pro forma financial measures assuming our acquisition of CCHN Group Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Community Care Health Network, Inc. (d/b/a Matrix Medical Network) (“Matrix”) occurred on October 1, 2014, and the sale of Providence Human Services, LLC and Providence Community Services, LLC (“Providence’s Human Services segment”) occurred on October 1, 2014. The table below presents our revenue and a reconciliation of net income to adjusted EBITDA for the twelve months ended September 30, 2015, assuming that we had acquired Matrix on October 1, 2014 and sold Providence’s Human Services segment on October 1, 2014:

Item 8.01 Other Events.

On November 4, 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the Company to engage in a common stock repurchase program to repurchase up to $70.0 million in aggregate value of the Company’s common stock during the twelve-month period following November 4, 2015. Purchases under the common stock repurchase program may be made from time-to-time through a combination of open market repurchases (including Rule 10b5-1 plans), privately negotiated transactions, and accelerated share repurchase transactions, at the discretion of the Company’s officers, and as permitted by securities laws, covenants under existing bank agreements, and other legal requirements.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.