The Children's Museum of the Arts, located in SoHo, is a community center where children and families create together through involvement with the visual and performing arts. The families that participate in the programming offered by the Museum are living, and perhaps working and going to school, in the shadows of what used to be the World Trade Center. In an effort to offer a neighborhood center for families to collectively process the events of September 11 and to heal as a community, the Museum's director and staff reached out to its members and others in the community through the use of art and art projects. This brief report discusses the work the author did at the Museum with a parents' group with the intention of creating a healing place within the SoHo community. Examples of the art produced during this session, comments made by participants, and suggestions made to these parents concerning their own healing and that of their children are included in this discussion. The effects of posttraumatic stress and strategies for response through art therapy are addressed. (Contains 2 figures.)