On April 19,1990, the University of Missouri Governmental Affairs Program Department set up the first statewide meeting forming a Missouri PRIMA Chapter. Since that time, MoPRIMA has met four times a year, with the spring meeting serving as a two-day annual conference.
MoPRIMA was formed to expand opportunities to exchange information about Risk Management at the local level, to contact others in the field with similar interests and problems, and to facilitate governmental risk management representation on a state and local level.