On November 10, 2006, Hermes Sargent Bates will host a recruiting and training program for the Texas Young Lawyers Association's (TYLA) Unaccompanied Children Project. The project's aim is to assist unaccompanied children in Texas detentions centers. These children, ages 2 to 17, reach the United States border unaccompanied by an adult, often in poor health and fleeing war, gangs, devastating poverty, abuse and other brutal conditions. Their journey to the United States border is a treacherous one taking weeks or months. Instead of finding their dream of a safe and secure home in the United States, these children end up in detention centers that have been described as a cross between a jail and an orphanage. They are not entitled to an attorney, and almost never have the means to hire one. Consequently, their stories go unheard. They remain in detention for years or, worse, are returned to the terrible conditions they sought to flee. TYLA is helping recruit and train lawyers to represent these children and ensure their stories are told in and out of court. To do this, TYLA is working with the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), a join project of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (DAYL).