The FY 2024 Report modules will open in N-PEARS for all agencies on October 28, 2024. State agencies must submit Reports through N-PEARS to their Regional Coordinator(s) by January 31, 2025. There will be several differences from the FY 2023 Report. Applicable information from the Planned Projects and Activities, Planned Evaluations, and Coordination and Collaboration … Read more
FY23 was the first year Annual Reports were submitted through National PEARS. As there wasn’t a FY23 plan in the system to generate the FY23 report from, adjustments were made to the system to help facilitate data entry. The following list briefly outlines a few features that will vary from FY23 reports. Setup There will … Read more
State agencies can edit SMART goals and objectives at any time in the plan submission process. The following instructions detail how to modify goals and objectives as necessary. How to Update SMART Goals Enter the Target Audience and Needs Assessment Module Mark as Incomplete Navigate to State Priority Goals using the menu in the left … Read more
A recent update for the Annual Plan affects the display of the Total Agency Budget within the Planned Staffing and Budget Module. The total budget layout has been reworked to more clearly separate the line-item breakdown of your total budget and the source of funding by year. Similarly, State agencies can now see their total … Read more
The Coordination and Collaboration module allows you to copy Minority Serving Institutions, Multisector Partnerships/Coalitions, and Tribal Organizations from prior Plan years: Projects can be copied over from a prior year’s plan, as well as any Partnership/Coalitions, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, or Minority-Serving Institutions. Multisector Partnerships/Coalitions To copy data, there will be a dropdown arrow … Read more
Overview If your Annual Plan is a Comprehensive Needs Assessment, census data will be pre-populated according to the federal poverty limit identified in the setup module. The following instructions detail how data is pulled from the American Community Survey to be populated in National PEARS. How to View Demographic Data from ACS Counties Go to data.census.gov … Read more
Support for Multiple Social Marketing Campaigns The Annual Plan now supports multiple social marketing campaigns to be listed for a single project. Simply select the relevant Social Marketing Campaigns in the Approaches section of that project, and then add multiple campaigns using the “Add Campaign” button on the Social Marketing Campaign section of the project. … Read more
Since the launch of the 2025 Annual Plan there have been a few updates worth mentioning. Copy Features – Planned Projects and Activities, Coordination and Collaboration The Annual Plan now has copying features for Planned Projects and Coordination and Collaboration. Projects can be copied over from a prior year’s plan, as well as any Partnership/Coalitions, … Read more
The Annual Plan will fall under the category of a comprehensive needs assessment or needs assessment update. You will be asked to select one of these options in the Basic Information section of the State Plan Setup. If you select comprehensive needs assessment will be prompted to choose the Gross Income Limit for this Plan. The corresponding data set … Read more
To ease the data entry burden, you can copy a project and all of its data from last year’s plan. From the Annual Plan Overview, click the View All Projects button. Click the Arrow Button next to Add Project Click Copy Previous Project Click in the Select an Existing Project Box and select the previous … Read more