The Current model of Pankh seeks referrals from different Child Care Institutions and is also dependent on referrals from the community.

1. Child Care Institutions (CCI’s): In the periphery of Bhubaneswar and neighbouring districts representatives of different CCI’s identify and refer youth to us who fits in the criteria, upon case work we link the child to different ongoing schemes in SOCH network. Ensuring all the major components have been ensured and if any gap is there it is also addressed. 
2. Referrals from community Volunteers/Stakeholders: In the periphery of Bhubaneswar and neighbouring districts SOCH has direct intervention with different communities under our Child Centred Community Development Programmes. All the places have their own community volunteers, stakeholder and also project staff refers youth to us who fits in the criteria, upon case work we link the child to different ongoing schemes in SOCH network. Ensuring all the major components have been ensured and if any gap is there it is also addressed. 

Apart from the programmatic things, programme Pankh has these components 

1. Counseling
2. Mentoring
3. Life-Skill Support
4. Vocational Training & Placement
5. Follow up
6. Counselling

Counseling 

Counseling plays a major role in identification and transformation of issues and complications of any individual’s life. More than this it becomes a mode of sharing and expressing limitation and probable solutions. It helps in getting an insight into the background of the occurrence and also in creating a conducive atmosphere for the subject. It also helps youths to identify their real interest areas and strengths and weaknesses. At Pankh, counselling is an interpersonal process through support and guidance provided to a person who is facing some personal and interpersonal problems.  A variety of approaches are used to resolve the problem of the person keeping in mind the values and goals of the society and the individual in particular. 

Some of the areas we focus in counselling at Pankh are: 

• Reduction of emotional distress experienced by the individual
• Reduction of dysfunctional behaviour of the individual
• Promotion of adapting capabilities of the individual in her/his/ their environment 
• Provision of assistance to identify and develop potential 
• Provision of assistance to the individual for making significant decisions 
• Helps in preparing the child’s mental situation to come out of CCI and cope with mainstream society

Mentoring

It is a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. Children in various CCIs grow up with less individual attention. Most of the children don’t have friends outside the CCI. Most of them have no idea about the world outside the four walls of the institutions. So it is important to link up the youths with interested mentors living in the mainstream society for mutual benefit.

Life Skill Training

Life skills have been defined as “the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life” (WHO). Life skills touch upon real life situations, they help build resilience among individuals, create self determination etc. 

‘Adaptive’ means that a person is flexible in approach and is able to adjust in different circumstances. Youths in various CCIs are living with less interaction with mainstream society. Due to this they lag behind in certain skills, which the children growing up in mainstream society have gained through their socialization. So, it is very important to provide life skill training to the youths growing up in institutional care for building their skill and confidence to adjust in the mainstream after 18 years of age. 

Pankh in life skill focuses on developing personality, skills, attitude and behaviour of the children. Pankh largely looks at attitude development and soft skills building which can help the youth both in their professional and personally. These skills are associated with everyday lives of the children. Pankh believes in acting as a facilitator which helps youth build these skills that would equip them for further life opportunities and challenges.  Some of the key components of life skill training include self-care, leadership quality building, identifying interest areas, motivation, decision making, linking to real life situations to build resilience, self-determination, and effectiveness communication.

Vocational Training & Job Placement

Vocational training and skill development are the driving force of the country. It gives youth a direction to guide themselves along with equipping them with skills that would make them economically independent. These skills help the youth adjust more effectively to the challenges and create opportunity for themselves. This component aims at helping youths gain skills and get placements to stand on their own feet. In collaboration with various vocational training institutions Pankh helps in building extensive networks for those youth who need to come to mainstream society and find a suitable livelihood for them. The youths are linked to training only after thorough counseling and determining their core interest areas. 

Follow-up

Any task or project is incomplete without a systematic follow-up plan in place. Follow-up ensures a correct and accurate accomplishment of a task. For a home placed child it means he/she does not run away again and for a Youth undergoing training and placement it means he/she is performing and satisfied with the profile. Follow-up is done to ensure the goals are achieved. Follow-ups are done at regular intervals of time by social workers through home visits, face-face interactions, telephonic conversations etc. It becomes vital to follow up to keep in track the progress of the youth and provide them with support if they relapse at a point of time.