Victor and Lynne Brick, owners of Brick Bodies Fitness Services, Inc., a chain of coed and women-only health clubs, established the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation (501c3) to support research and education in mental health. Honoring Victor’s brother John, who suffered from schizophrenia and eventually succumbed to complications from the disease, the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation is dedicated to advancing research towards a comprehensive scientific understanding of relationships between exercise and mental health. The John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation will support a program of studies for that purpose, and the dissemination and application of results.