Communities can adapt to residents\u27 needs through innovative citizen-led initiatives. Extension can facilitatethese innovation initiatives, but are Extension agents always receptive to such change? We conducted a study toexamine the association between organizational change and personal factors and Extension family and consumersciences agents\u27 innovativeness regarding caregiving programming. Respondents rated their receptiveness tochange and answered questions regarding psychosocial health factors. We found that years in current position, leadership self-efficacy, interoffice support, and social support were significant predictors of innovativeness. Results suggest that personal factors rather than organizational change factors may be the more crucialmechanisms for driving agents\u27 innovativeness
