It is being funded through a new £250 million package of support for mental health services over the next five years, which will focus on helping young people.
The community mental well-being service will fast-track children and young people with the most serious mental illness to get specialist help.
A proportion of the funding will also go towards placing 350 counsellors in schools and an additional 250 schools nurses, ensuring that every secondary school has a counselling service.
The commitment was announced by the First Minister in her plan for Government for 2018-19.
Ms Sturgeon said she hoped the package ‘underlines the commitment of this Government to ensuring that our health services value and support mental wellbeing just as much as physical wellbeing.’
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