The projects - which include community-based counselling services, mentoring and arts programmes - aim to offer children and young people up to 25 the opportunity to access mental health support.
They have an emphasis on improving access to support outside of NHS services, including for groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) young people, or those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.
The funding is coming from the Health and Wellbeing Fund, part of a programme of government investment in the voluntary sector. The projects will be funded through the scheme in their first year, and additional joint funding from local commissioners will be agreed for two years afterwards.
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