As an alcohol-free haven, Scrappys hosted national bands, such as Botch, Fall Out Boy, Give Up the Ghost, and a wide variety of Tucson native bands like The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, and Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace.

Skrappy's also offered job opportunities, drug counseling, classes and emergency clothing, blankets and shelter.

In December 2005, a fight broke out in Scrappys when adult members of a gang associated with a hard-core metal band that was playing entered the venue and began shoving people.

[2] The shooter was not charged with a crime, but the umbrella organization under which Scrappy's ran, Our Family Services, paid an out-of-court settlement of $150,000 in the summer of 2007 and never recovered financially.

More than 29,000 at-risk children, youth, families, seniors and disabled adults received counseling, education, housing, mediation and crisis help.