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Palmer’s dream for a second campus began as the result of a strategic planning initiative by Palmer’s Board during our centennial year in 1995. Child care needs across the state were growing and unmet, future growth at the land locked Columbus Campus was problematic, and the compelling desire of Palmer’s Board was to serve as many needy children as our resources could possibly allow.
Thus began an extensive planning effort to establish a second Palmer campus, including a feasibility study, site selection, and engineering and landscape design and site plans. Executive Director Robert Farris, a seminary graduate with broad and extensive leadership experience, was selected to lead Palmer’s new effort, and he quickly drew around him a team of expert planners and land developers, including local Palmer Board members Jon Reeves and Kirby Dobbs-Floyd.
Thanks to their combined efforts, which included the prayers and encouragement of Independent Presbyterian Church in Memphis and others, the new campus gradually began to take form and shape. Today, while not yet fully completed, the Hernando Campus includes three cottages for children, two staff residences, an outdoor pavilion, and a stunningly beautiful chapel nestled along the shores of a 72-acre lake.
A single winding main road ushers you through the campus where the natural beauty of large trees and rolling landscapes invites at every turn. Future development, like current development, will be along cul-de-sacs off the main road, preserving both open space and creating an attractive neighborhood atmosphere.
When fully completed, the Hernando Campus will more than double Palmer’s residential capacity while also providing valuable community-based counseling, educational, and recreational services.
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Palmer Home for Children is recognized as a charitable, not-for-profit corporation under Mississippi law. We are also recognized as a 501(c)(3) public charity under federal law.