Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Lawrence, will conduct a recognition luncheon at 11:45 a.m. today to present Employer of the Year and Employee of the Year awards for the center’s Support Employment division, which finds work for and supervises people who have had an acute mental illness and are wanting and able to return to the workplace.

Finalists for Employer of the Year are Dillons, Local Burger, Alvamar Country Club, Kansas University Dining Services, Wendy’s (on 23rd Street), The Underground at KU, Electric Supply, Baker University, and the University Book Shop. The luncheon is at the center, 200 Maine.