May 4, 2026 (Toronto) - In recognition of remarkable progress made over the past six years, the Treliving family is proud to announce a $5-million gift to womenmind, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)’s groundbreaking initiative for advancing women’s mental health research and supporting women in the sciences.
This investment builds on the family’s founding support and reflects a continued commitment to closing critical gaps in how women’s mental health is understood, studied and treated in Canada and around the world.
“Mental illness has touched our family, and we know how urgent it is to accelerate research and deepen our understanding of women’s mental health,” said Sandi Treliving, Founding Member, womenmind and member of the CAMH Foundation Board of Directors, on behalf of the Treliving family. “When we helped establish womenmind, we set out with an ambitious goal: to ensure women’s mental health would no longer be overlooked in research or care. In just six years, we have seen meaningful progress that is already helping women globally. We are proud to continue supporting this work so that the talented researchers, scientists and doctors leading discovery in women’s mental health can build on this momentum.”
Since its launch, womenmind has enabled leading researchers at CAMH to explore how biological, social, and life-stage factors uniquely shape women’s mental health — from puberty to menopause — accelerating discoveries that are influencing care worldwide.
“Support from womenmind has supercharged our ability to investigate critical aspects of women’s mental health that historically received little attention in research,” said Dr. Liisa Galea, CAMH Senior Scientist and inaugural Treliving Chair in Women’s Mental Health. “Since I joined womenmind as the Scientific Lead, we have advanced research into how hormonal transitions, reproductive experiences and other female-specific factors influence mental health and precision treatment response. This new investment will allow us to deepen that work and accelerate what comes next, ensuring that future treatments are truly informed by women’s biology and lived experience.”
As CAMH continues to build its first-of-its-kind women’s mental health discovery hub, the Treliving family’s gift will fuel the progress already underway across research, mentorship and innovation.
"The Treliving family has been instrumental in making womenmind what it is today," said Anne-Marie Newton, President & CEO, CAMH Foundation. "Their founding gift launched this community and demonstrated that progress on women's mental health could accelerate with the right investments. Now, by endowing the Treliving Chair in Women's Mental Health, they're embedding this work at CAMH forever—in their name and in perpetuity. There will always be a world-class scientist leading women's mental health research at CAMH, and generations of women will benefit from the breakthroughs that follow. We are deeply grateful to Sandi, Jim and their family for their enduring commitment."
With this latest commitment, the Treliving family continues to help position CAMH and womenmind at the forefront of a growing international movement to transform women’s mental health through science, leadership, and collective action.
For more information, visit: www.camh.ca/womenmind
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About womenmind™
womenmind™ is a community of philanthropists, thought leaders and scientists dedicated to tackling sex and gender disparities in science to put the unique needs and experiences of women at the forefront of mental health research. Inspired and empowered by the work of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), members of the womenmind community connect with and learn from each other while driving change for women’s mental health and women in science.
About CAMH Foundation
CAMH Foundation is charged with raising and stewarding funds in support of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada’s largest mental illness and addiction hospital. We drive change for mental health by inspiring philanthropy that enables leading-edge care, research and education at CAMH. We are transforming the way we understand and address mental illness by raising awareness and increasing engagement in our community. Our generous and dedicated supporters help CAMH advance discovery and innovation, build spaces that promote recovery, and break down the stigma of mental illness. We are leading a movement that will create a society that believes mental health is health.
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