Eighteen young people have been selected to take part in YoungMinds' children and young people's panel, which will first meet next month.
The partnership with v means all the young people on the panel will receive training in participation work, which they will be able to put towards Youth Achievement Awards.
Carly Raby, young people's participation manager at YoungMinds, said: "We are in the process of telling the successful applicants. All the young people are emotionally healthy but have had experience with mental health services and some are looked-after children."
The youth panel will be kept informed by a "virtual" online youth panel called Healthy Heads, made up of five- to 25-year-olds.
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