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Governance Firms Question the Experience of the Avalon Group's Nominees

TUCSON, Ariz., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Providence Service Corporation (Nasdaq: PRSC) today announced that two of the nation's leading independent proxy advisory services, PROXY Governance, Inc. and Glass Lewis & Co., have issued recommendations to their clients that stockholders vote for Providence's Board of Directors nominees, Fletcher Jay McCusker and Kristi L. Meints, at the Company's annual meeting of stockholders to be held on June 15, 2009. The governance firms' clients include institutional investors, mutual funds, pension funds and other fiduciaries.

In its report recommending that stockholders vote with Providence's management for the director nominees, PROXY Governance, Inc. stated:

"Our analysis of the two competing slates of director nominees further compels us to support management, whose nominees for the 2009 annual meeting offer the depth and applicability of experience necessary to continue to lead the company. . . [W]e do not believe the dissident nominees have sufficient industry and board expertise to outweigh the loss of the two directors targeted by the proxy contest. Moreover, the board's recent appointment of [Terence J. Cryan] demonstrates both an openness to strengthening the board with highly-experienced and appropriate new independent directors, and to seeking out shareholder input with regard to the board's composition."

In its report, PROXY Governance also commented on the success of the Providence Board in responding to the numerous challenges that Providence faced over the past year. The PROXY Governance report stated:

". . . [W]e recognize that the board did ultimately follow a prudent and well-thought-out response to the economic risks the company fa
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