Unit TypeType 1 IdentifierUMA-UN-000079438Series[UMA-SR-000001749] Child Welfare HistoryAccession[2008.0060] PRIVATE AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS OF LEONARD J TIERNEYDate Rangec.1977-1992DescriptionPapers and reports, Foster care Study. Comprises of files, publications, and loose papers including:
1. St Vincent’s Home for Boys, Founded 1854, South Melbourne, 131st Annual Report (1985).
2. Copy of: 2nd Interim Evaluation Report, Children’s Welfare Association, Comprehensive Emergency Service Project (Draft).
3. Copies of: ‘Special Report: It’s Not Tough, It’s Tender Love: Problem Teens Need Compassion that the “Tough-Love” Approach to Child-Rearing Doesn’t Offer Them’ (1992).
4. Memo to Head of Department re: Application for Research Funds.
5. Handwritten notes titled ‘The Need for a Synoptic View in Undertaking the Review’.
6.Copies of interviews with boys from St Vincent’s (28/11/90).
7. 1990 correspondence on St Vincent letterhead re boys in relation to a Wardship Review decision 09/08/1990.
8.Copies of published reference material including journal articles.
9. File of newspaper clippings. 10. Manila folder: Reference Material, Foster Care. This file includes templates of ‘Interview Schedule for Foster Project’ and notes; and copies of published material relating to foster care. 11. Blue manila folder: Foster Care, Health Promotion Fund Application includes: Draft with notations ‘Families Who Foster’, by Stuart W.B. Evans and Leonard J. Tierney (n.d.), handwritten notes on case data, 1 piece of correspondence between the Christian Brothers and Tierney in reference to an agreement (1986), copies of research papers, newsletters, journal and newspaper articles that appear to be reference material (1977-1992)Access StatusAccess restrictions applyEMu IRN106622
2008.0060 Unit 0005, [UMA-UN-000079438]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 25/06/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/165104
