13D Filing: Coliseum Capital and Providence Service Corp (PRSC)

CUSIP No. 743815102 (Common Stock)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE
13D/A

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Amendment No. 9)*

The
Providence Service Corporation

(Name of Issuer)

Common Stock, Par Value $0.001 Per Share

(Title of Class of Securities)

743815102

(CUSIP Number)

Christopher Shackelton/Adam Gray

105 Rowayton Ave.

Rowayton, CT 06853

(Name,
Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

December 11, 2017

(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has
previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of sections 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 140.13d-1(g), check the following box.  ☐

The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be filed for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (Act) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).

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Explanatory Note: This Amendment No. 9 (this Amendment), to the Schedule 13D (the
Initial 13D) filed by the Filers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on July 30, 2012, as amended and supplemented by Amendment No. 1 to the Initial 13D filed on August 20, 2012, Amendment
No. 2 to the Initial 13D filed on September 13, 2012, Amendment No. 3 to the Initial 13D filed on November 28, 2012, Amendment No. 4 to the Initial 13D filed on August 15, 2013, Amendment No. 5 to the Initial 13D
filed on October 28, 2014, Amendment No. 6 to the Initial 13D filed on February 23, 2015, Amendment No. 7 to the Initial 13D filed on March 16, 2015, and Amendment No. 8 to the Initial 13D filed on March 17, 2017,
amends and supplements certain of the items set forth therein.

As used in this Amendment, the term Filers collectively refers to:

Item 1. Security and
Issuer.

Item 1 is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

The principal executive office of the Issuer is located at 700 Canal Street, Third Floor, Stamford, Connecticut 06902.

Item 2. Identity and Background.

Item 2(b) is
hereby amended and replaced in its entirety with the following:

The business address of the Filers is 105 Rowayton Ave., Rowayton, Connecticut 06853.

Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.

Item
5 is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

The information relating to the beneficial ownership of Common Stock by each of the Filers set forth in
Rows 7 through 13 of the cover pages hereto is incorporated herein by reference. The percentages set forth in Row 13 for all cover pages filed herewith are calculated based upon 13,305,502 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of November 3,
2017 (excluding treasury shares of 3,944,171 shares of Common Stock), as reported in the Issuers Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2017, as filed with the
SEC on November 8, 2017.

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The Filers effected the following transactions in the Common Stock in privately negotiated transactions on
the dates indicated, and such transactions are the only transactions in the Common Stock by the Filers in the sixty days preceding the filing of this Amendment:

Except as set forth in Item 6 hereof, no other person has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends
from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Common Stock or the Issuers Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the Series A Preferred Stock) reported herein.

The information contained in Item 6 is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 6. Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer.

In connection with the transactions described in Item 5, pursuant to a Lock-Up Agreement between CCM and Jefferies LLC
(Jefferies) dated December 11, 2017 (the Lock-Up Agreement), the Filers, among other things, agreed that, for thirty days, the Filers will not, without the prior written consent of
Jefferies (which consent may be withheld in its discretion):

The foregoing description of the Lock-Up Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Lock-Up Agreement, which is filed hereto as Exhibit 5 and incorporated herein by reference.

CCM is an investment adviser whose clients, including CCP, CCP2, CCC and the Separate Account, have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of
dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Common Stock and the Series A Preferred Stock. CC is the general partner of CCP, CCP2 and CCC. Gray and Shackelton are the managers of CC and CCM. CCM may have the right to receive
performance-related fees from the Separate Account, and CC may have the right to receive performance-related fees from CCP, CCP2 and CCC.

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Item 7. Material to be Filed as Exhibits.

Item 7 is hereby supplemented as follows:

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SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: December 13, 2017