Initially named Santa Cruz Family Health Services, Inc., Mariposa begins in 1980 as a clinical division of the Santa Cruz County Health Department
In 1989, with funding from a federal grant and a loan from Tucson Medical Center, the Health Center opens a beautiful, new modern building on Mastick Way, eventually called the Mariposa building
Recognizing the importance of dental health in maintaining overall health, Mariposa begins providing dental services in a tiny, 10’ x 30’ modular trailer on loan from the Arizona Department Health Services. (1993)