Youth empowerment is a process where young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. Our youth empowerment activities address the obstacles the rural youths face, and accordingly, we take steps to improve their access to resources and opportunities to transform their aptitude & ability as socially useful and productive persons through their values and attitudes. Most importantly, we focus on economic empowerment of youths through skill training.

Training to Panchayatiraj Members
As an empaneled organization of the State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), Govt. of WB, imparting capacity development training on different topics to the elected PRIs in both residential and non-residential mode since 2014-15. The duration of each batch of training varies from 3 days to 5 days. SIRD Empaneled Trainers have been imparting training to the PRIs on Good Governance, Transparency and Accountability, Different welfare schemes of line departments, GPDP, etc. The organization conducted more than 58 batches of training to the PRIs.

Training Youths on Employable Skill
BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY has launched vocational skilling of youth since 1998-99. The objective was to train youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds (age 18–25 years) and provide them with employable skills, coupled with access to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Today, BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY vocational training programs across the districts of Dhenkanal, Jajpur, and Sambalpur enable youth to access entry-level positions and placements in different vocations. By the end of March 2020, 4350 young people were reached in 2019-2020, and the youth were trained and subsequently facilitated placement in entry-level jobs or helped to start their own enterprise.
As a mandate, BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY imparts different vocational training to unemployed youths in different trades across its area of operation. A chunk of such trained youths are physically handicapped. The trades include Computer Application, IT & ITES, Type & Shorthand, Electronics & Electrical Repairing, Photography & Videography, Beauty Therapy, Retail, Tourism & Hospitality, Applique, Tailoring & Dressmaking, Agarbati Making, Phenyl Making, Terracotta, Bamboo Craft, Bicycle Repairing, Vehicle Driving, Mushroom Cultivation, Floriculture & Floral Design, etc.
The organization, during the post-training stage, offers proper backward and forward linkage with concerned organizations and Job Melas, Loan Melas, and Career Counseling Melas. The rate of post-training self-employment and salaried employment is above 80%, and therefore encouraging.

Youth Empowerment
Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY engages in empowering the youth and adolescents in developing their capacities to manage their own lives, helps them develop a sense of belongingness, manage conflict situations, solve their problems, and more, so they can march towards a better life— a healthy and dignified life. BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY imparts Life Skill Education to adolescents, holds Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Camps. The organization also conducts events of adventure sports to draw out the competitive aspect in their lives.
In addition to the above, BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY imparts vocational education and takes necessary steps for post-training rehabilitation. Vocational training includes different trades that have potential for gainful employment, either wage-based or self-employment.
BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY also conducts Second Chance Camps for adolescents, Adolescent Girls Meet, Leadership Development, and Youth Adventure Camps for youth and adolescents. By now, 1100 youths, both boys and girls, have been empowered and accommodated under the above activities.

Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts:
Though the drug menace is universal, we in India and for that matter in Odisha suffer hugely and that too on many fronts including personal, communal, social, and developmental fronts. In all, the drug devil eclipses almost all aspects of a normal, personal, and social life and thereby causing the greatest damage. And with all humility in place, BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY attempts at employing its positive action force towards countering the evil and to bring possible good into the individual and family–cum- social life of the drug victim or say the drug abuser.
Dhenkanal and Angul districts are the drug-sensitive and vulnerable districts of Odisha. Illegal trafficking of drugs and its abuse is rampant in different areas of the districts. The ongoing Drug Abuse Monitoring System (DAMS) conducted by BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY regularly indicates that drug abuse patterns are increasing day by day in these districts due to inadequate intervention to aware the people of its consequences. Availability of Narcotic Analgesic such as Opium, Chupi (extract of Poppy), Heroine, Brown Sugar etc. in the open market possesses a big threat and has ruined the socio-economic condition of the people. Most of the people, especially service men, school and college youths, daily laborers, mining workers get trapped in the drug net and ruin their life.
So, to tackle such issues by educating and creating awareness among the general masses on the consequences and illicit trafficking of drugs, the organization BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY has been implementing the Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts with a 15-bed capacity in Dhenkanal and Angul districts with the support of the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India. The program caters to services like OPD, IPD, counseling, follow-up, vocational training (to the IPD cases), rehabilitation, and reintegration.

Prevention of HIV/AIDS through Targeted Intervention:
Targeted Intervention is a very significant component of the National AIDS Control program. The intervention provides a comprehensive and integrated approach for HIV prevention among the marginalized and vulnerable populations such as female sex workers (FSW) and men having sex with men (MSM), etc. BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY, as a partner organization with the State AIDS Control Society, Govt. of Odisha, has been implementing the Targeted Intervention program in Dhenkanal district since the year 2009 with the following activities covering 200 FSWs and 200 MSMs:
Major activities

1. Interpersonal behavior change communication (BCC)
2. Promotion/distribution of condoms
3. Provision of services for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
4. Linkages to Integrated Counseling and Testing Centers (ICTCs)
5. Advocacy for Enabling Environment
6. Community Mobilization for good practices and non-stigmatization

Outreach & Drop-in Centre:
BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY is implementing the Outreach Drop-in Centre programme funded by the National Institute of Social Development (NISD), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment under the National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR) since November 2019 in Cuttack district, Odisha. The main objective of the programme is to conduct outreach activities in the community for the prevention of drug abuse with a special focus on youth who are dependent on drugs and to provide a safe and secure place for drug abusers in the community. The activities include Community awareness Programme, Outreach Camps, Screening and assessment of clients, Individual Counseling, BCC, O.P.D., Group Session, Referral, and Follow-up, etc.

Maternal and Child Health
Maternal health is the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. It encompasses the healthcare dimensions of family planning, preconception, parental and postnatal care in order to ensure a positive and fulfilling experience, in most cases, and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Maternal health revolves around the health and wellness of women, particularly when they are pregnant, at the time they give birth, and during child-raising. WHO has indicated that even though motherhood has been considered as a fulfilling natural experience that is emotional to the mother, a high percentage of women go through a lot of challenges where they suffer health-wise and sometimes even die. Because of this, there is a need to invest in the health of women. The investment can be achieved in different ways, among the main ones being subsidizing the healthcare cost, education on maternal health, encouraging effective family planning, and ensuring progressive check-ups on the health of women with children.