Nutrition Supervisors - Welcome!
Nutrition supervisors are key to successful nutrition education efforts within county settings. Nutrition supervisors provide the on-site management of FNEC programs through their guidance and leadership of frontline staff, ensuring quality nutrition education lessons are provided by well-trained staff.
Access to the Data
As you will be exposed to sensitive, confidential information regarding program participants and staff, it is required that you take and pass the Cornell University Human Subjects tutorial. This tutorial and complementing assessment of knowledge, is provided online at Cornell University's Office of Integrity and Assurance. Once this has been completed, please forward the results, forwarded from the program to your email address, to us at fnec-admin@cornell.edu.
The FNEC Policy and Procedure Manual
Nutrition supervisors are expected to be familiar with the FNEC Policy and Procedure Manual. These policies assist you in understanding the processes of nutrition education, including guidance and expectations of programming within your county. It will be important that you become familiar with your county policies and procedures and the Cornell University Cooperative Extension Financial Operations Resource Manual (FORMs book.)
The County Reporting System (CRS5)
The County Reporting System is a computer software program designed to capture the program efforts within the county. The CRS5 is used to input information related to adult enrollment, youth education, staff efforts, and community collaborations. As the nutrition supervisor, you should be familiar with the CRS5 software capabilities and review the contents of the CRS5 Manual. It would be recommended that you review the appropriate sections with your program and data entry staff, to ensure that they are aware of and using the appropriate guidance from this document in their positions.
Data Collection and Reporting Forms
There are several forms associated with the nutrition education programs. The data collection and activity reporting forms are used by frontline nutrition education staff and nutrition supervisors to collect and report on the activities within your county.
Communicating through a list serve
A special email list has been developed such that direct communication can occur between campus and county nutrition supervisory staff, as well as between supervisory staff within the counties. Please send an email to fnec-admin@cornell.edu requesting to be added to the FNEC list serve.
You may also wish to be added to the general nutrition list serve. Please send an email to Christina Stark, if you wish to be added to this list serve.
The Reporting Schedule
CRS5 Databases are submitted to Cornell University on the 10th day of the month following the end of the quarter. Within nutrition education programming, the quarters are defined as:
- October 1, 20XX - December 31, 20XX
- January 1, 20X1 - March 31, 20X1
- April 1, 20X1 - June 30, 20X1
- July 1, 20X1 - September 30, 20X1
Therefore, quarterly CRS5 submissions occur January 10th, April 10th, July 10th, and October 10th.
The narrative reports, completed by the nutrition supervisors are generally due on the 30th of the month following the end of the quarter. The exception is July, when the narrative reports are due on the 15th. Please refer to Year-at-a-Glance for information regarding what is due, at what point.
