Too often, when a story about child welfare receives significant press coverage, it’s usually around the tragic murder of a child due to abuse and neglect. The audience is left with an incomplete view of County child protective services, and an unfair notion of our work. This can have a ripple effect on our system beyond perpetuating negative stereotypes in the general public. Students training to be social workers may choose a job elsewhere. Judges new to the bench may fold their newspapers in dismay and view social workers through a slightly different lens.