The additional money awarded from the mayor’s Young Londoners Fund will see the current programme expanded to include youth clubs, charities working with young people in London and universities.
The announcement is part of a wider drive to support 110,000 disadvantaged young Londoners through the £45m fund launched in 2018.
The Youth Mental Health First Aid programme was launched 18 months ago to increase the number of trained youth mental health first aiders working with young people across London.
Delivered in partnership with mental health organisations Thrive LDN and Mental Health First Aid England, it aims to ensure every state-funded primary, secondary and further education college in London has access to youth mental health first aid by 2021.
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