August 21, 2023 – UEF and CP Kickoff

Thank you for your participation in the Annual Report Feedback Program for the SNAP-Ed National Program Evaluation and Reporting System (N-PEARS) annual report! Participating in this program allows you to preview the annual report and fill out surveys to provide feedback about your user experience. Feedback will be analyzed to determine system improvements before the … Read more

Annual Report Features In Development

The following features will not be available for the User Experience Feedback (UEF) program and Community Preview (CP), but will be available for the official annual report launch in N-PEARS later this fall. More details will be provided at that time. Data Import Capabilities The annual report will allow agencies to import data from other … Read more

UEF/CP Feedback Program Training Video

Training Recording This is a recording of the live training for the User Experience Feedback (UEF) and Community Preview (CP) feedback programs on August 22, 2023. This training walks through the goals of the feedback programs, demonstrates how to access the feedback program materials, and answers questions related to the feedback program. https://youtu.be/mAgQ7Ps25Jk PowerPoint Presentation … Read more

August 9, 2023 – Multiple Data Sources for Target Population Age Groups

The following update is live in N-PEARS. This update affects the Target Population section in the Target Audience and Needs Assessment module of State agency plans. A screenshot from the system is provided below to illustrate the change.  Target Population Data Sources Update We’re excited to announce that the Target Population section in the Target Audience and … Read more

August 3, 2023 – Decimal Place allowed in Target Population “Finding” field

The following update is live in N-PEARS. This update affects the Target Population section in the Target Audience and Needs Assessment module of State agency plans. A screenshot from the system is provided below to illustrate the change.  Target Population “Finding” field Update We’re excited to announce an update to the Finding field in the Target Population … Read more

July 27, 2023 – Planned Staffing Data Update

The 12 impacted agencies were sent the following email on July 27, 2023.  Hello from the N-PEARS Support team at Canopy!  We’re reaching out with information about an automatic data update affecting your agency’s N-PEARS plan data. More details are provided below:  What data have been updated?The “Planned Staffing” section in the “Planned Staffing and Budget” module Why … Read more

Mapping Sites to an Area Type

Background In the Projects and Activity Results module in annual report, N-PEARS automatically codes each project site with an area type: Urban, Suburban, Rural, or Frontier. The following document details the algorithm that N-PEARS uses to assign each site to an area type, and lists the data sources used for mapping. N-PEARS uses Rural-Urban Community … Read more

Document PSE Reach

For the purposes of this reporting system, reach is defined as the unduplicated number of people who come in direct contact with one or more PSE changes at a site over the course of the year. Please report on reach at the site level only. Thus, if you are implementing multiple PSE strategies in a site, the … Read more

Annual Report Feedback Program

Overview As Canopy develops the annual report component of National PEARS, Canopy and FNS are offering the User Experience Feedback (UEF) program and Community Preview (CP) to gather user feedback about the system before launch.  The optional UEF and CP programs allow you to preview the annual report and fill out surveys to provide feedback … Read more

Annual Plan Budget Import

Import template The excel template can be downloaded from within N-PEARS in the Budget Import section within the Planned Staffing and Budget module. You can also download the template here: annual_plan_budget_template. When should an agency use the budget import? The budget import section is optional. Agencies may input budget data directly into N-PEARS instead of … Read more