The Children’s Village is a residential school that focuses on preparing at-risk boys aged 6-20 for success through an enriched program teaching pro-social skills. The document describes using the TTAP method with boys in one cottage dealing with drug/alcohol issues. TTAP involves meditation, guided imagery, and creative activities like drawing, painting, sculpture to stimulate positive memories and emotions. Goals are to relax both mind and body and encourage social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development through creative self-expression.

2. • The Children’s Village is a residential school for
at-risk boys aged 6 to 20 in an enriched and
structured program aimed at preparing them to be
successful members of their families and
communities. It focuses on teaching pro-social
behavior and fosters a love of learning, the
acquisition of career-oriented job skills, and the
development of leisure interests and skills that will
foster life-long emotional and physical health and
well being.
• The populations they deal with are youth with
behavioral issues, family problems, alien children,
and children sent there from court order.

3. TTAP Method with the boys
• I performed the TTAP method with the boys that were all
in the same cottage. This cottage consisted of teenage
boys with drug and alcohol problems.
• I took the boys every session through a meditation and
body relaxation. With all positive results to relax their
body and mind.
• Once their minds and bodies were relaxed, I took them
into a guided imagery where they were remembering
positive memories and images.
• Then we take these images and memories and turn them
into art work where they get time to relax and create
something that is theirs while enjoying themselves.

4. Goals from using TTAP
• Social • Physical
The boys will get to I will perform a body
socialize in a calm, relaxation for the boys
relaxing place and talk and they will have
about what they have physical movement
created through dance.
• Emotional • Cognitive-
The boys will express The boys will have their
feelings through minds relaxed and in a
memories and their art calm place through
work. meditation and a guided
imagery.

5. 9 Steps of the TTAP Method
1) Meditation/Conversation
2) Music
3) Drawing/Painting
4) Sculpture
5) Dance/Movement
6) Words/Poetry/Stories
7) Food
8) Theme Event
9) Phototherapy

6. Drawing
• First step was
drawing using colored
pencils, crayons and
markers.
• The children were
drawing pictures
stimulating positive
memories like
vacations, family, and
even their friends and
girlfriends.

7. Painting
• The second step is painting
where the kids would paint
images they saw in their
guided imagery.
• Since I am dealing with
children that have some
behavioral problems they
painted some inappropriate
things for example gang
related stuff which there is a
zero tolerance of anything
gang oriented.
• Most of these children don’t
have a lot of positive memories
due to the environments they
grew up in.

8. Mask Making
• It was around Halloween
and it was a great idea to
have the children paint
there own mask
symbolizing who they are.
• They really enjoyed this
step we had a lot of fun
talking about past
Halloweens they had.

9. Sculpture
• This next step I had the
boys make a sculpture of
whatever they wanted but
had to be appropriate.
• This was excellent
because the children got
to create a sculpture then
paint it.
• They made a funny face,
their favorite number, and
a cross.

10. Collage/Phototherapy
• In the fifth session, I had the
boys make a collages.
• I brought in a bunch of
magazines which they cut out
things they liked and put them
all together to make a collage
with different colors of paper
added to make it look real nice.
• They are teenage boys so they
were looking at all the photos
of women but I directed them
to add some other things they
are interested in.

11. Dance and Movement
• When I first told the boys
what this session was,
their reaction was, “I don’t
dance, I break dance and
rap”. So I told them to do
that if that’s what you do.
• I brought in some music
that they like but the
appropriate versions.
They just got to dance
and move around a little
while singing or rapping.

12. Music to Words on paper
• During this session, the boys
listened to music that they like
and were allowed to write their
own raps or poetry or even just
words on paper.
• The boys really liked this they
wrote some lyrics they heard in
songs that reminded them of
themselves.
• They wanted to add art into
their work so I let them draw as
well, while incorporating words
into their art.

13. Food and Theme Party
• Since it was Thanksgiving during
this week and some of the children
are not allowed to go home so I
decided to combine these two
steps with Thanksgiving food and
with a party for the boys.
• We had great food brought in by
the cottage staff like turkey, corn,
mashed potatoes, corn bread and
a couple other foods. The boys
had a great time while eating a lot.
• Not all these children have really
had a family to sit down and eat a
nice dinner.
• It was very nice to have the people
that basically live with children
help prepare meals for them to eat
we had a blast.

14. Accomplishments for the Boys
• The boys got to express good memories and
positive thinking.
• The boys got to have fun and most significantly
share POSITIVE memories.
• The boys got to try something they have never
done before like meditations followed by some
form of self expression. The art work they
created was like nothing seen before by the
staff.
• At the end of every session, the boys thanked
me and showed great appreciation to have me
running a program where we could talk and
create art to occupy their mind.

15. Accomplishments for Me
• Relaxation of the body and mind was performed through
meditations and guided imagery to stimulate positive
emotions and memories.
• Getting at least three boys committed to perform the
TTAP every week. (I would get a couple of walks-ins to
try something new but commitment lacks with a lot of the
youths).
• I started a new program at The Children’s Village that
the boys have never done before.
• Using Recreational Therapy to connect with children and
young adults with behavioral issues and drug and
alcohol problems.
• Most of all the TTAP Method really assisted in helping
the youths with positive conversations about life and
what directions to take while having fun creating art in a
relaxed state of mind.