Operation Wellness Literacy (OWL)™
OWL Academy Overview
Operation Wellness Literacy (OWL™) is a health literacy academy designed to make health and wellness education accessible, engaging, and meaningful across the lifespan. OWL helps individuals build the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to understand health information, make informed choices, and develop healthy habits at every stage of life.
At the center of the OWL experience is Oscar™ Owl, who guides learners through age-appropriate health and wellness missions. For youth, OWL progresses through four developmental stages: Cadet, Explorer, Navigator, and Ambassador, creating opportunities to build health literacy as children and adolescents grow.
Schools can adopt OWL to introduce health literacy early and help students build foundational knowledge and healthy habits as learners grow. By incorporating OWL into educational settings, schools can make health literacy an intentional part of lifelong learning and equip students with skills they can carry into adulthood.
For adults, OWL Voyagers™ provides practical health literacy education focused on everyday wellness, informed decision-making, and healthy living. OWL Age Well™ extends the experience to older adults with strategies that support healthy aging, wellness, independence, and quality of life.
OWL also includes OWL Health Pro™, a dedicated learning academy for healthcare professionals and clinical institutions. OWL Health Pro helps healthcare teams strengthen patient-centered communication, improve patient health literacy, and ensure patients can understand and act on the information they receive. Clinical institutions can adopt OWL Health Pro as part of their commitment to patient-centered care, stronger patient engagement, and improved health outcomes.
From classrooms to clinics and childhood to older adulthood, OWL creates a connected approach to health literacy that supports individuals, educators, healthcare professionals, schools, and clinical institutions.
OWL™: Building health literacy. Growing healthy habits. Connecting learning to better health outcomes across the lifespan.
What you will gain...
Operation Wellness Literacy (OWL™) provides organizations with a scalable approach to building health literacy across the lifespan. By adopting OWL, schools, community organizations, and healthcare institutions can help learners, patients, families, and professionals develop the knowledge and skills needed to make informed health decisions, build healthy habits, and support better health outcomes. Participant benefits include:
- Building health literacy early — Introduce foundational health knowledge and healthy habits during childhood and reinforce them as learners grow.
- Learning through missions — Follow Oscar OWL and the Cadet, Explorer, Navigator, and Ambassador stages to make health education engaging.
- Understanding healthier behaviors — Give participants practical knowledge they can translate into everyday health choices and habits.
- Support for better health outcomes — Create stronger connections between health knowledge, healthy behaviors, patient engagement, and wellness..
- An organizational culture of health literacy — Make health literacy an intentional priority across schools, healthcare settings, and communities.
- A scalable framework — Adopt OWL across ages, learning environments, and organizational settings while maintaining a connected health literacy journey.
- Improved patient health literacy — Through OWL Health Pro, help healthcare professionals communicate health information more clearly and effectively.
Operation Wellness Literacy (OWL™) is designed for learners, educators, families, healthcare professionals, schools, clinical institutions, and organizations that want to make health literacy a lifelong priority. OWL provides age-appropriate opportunities to build health knowledge, healthy habits, confidence, and the ability to make informed health decisions. OWL is ideal for:
- Schools and educators seeking to introduce and reinforce health literacy as a part of lifelong learning.
- Adults seeking strategies for healthy aging, independence, wellness, and quality of life to Age Well.
- Healthcare professionals seeking to strengthen patient health literacy, communication, and education skills as Health Pros.
- Hospitals and clinical institutions committed to patient-centered care and improved health literacy.
- Healthcare organizations seeking to improve patient understanding, engagement, adherence, and health outcomes.
- Community organizations and wellness programs looking for accessible health education across different age groups.
- Public health and population health initiatives focused on prevention, health education, and reducing health literacy barriers.
- Online Academy Access — OWL is delivered through an accessible online learning academy, allowing participants to engage with content from school, home, work, or other approved locations.
- Age-Appropriate Learning Pathways — Content is organized to support learners across the lifespan, including Cadet, Explorer, Navigator, Ambassador, OWL Life, and OWL Age Well.
- Group Access for Schools — Schools can purchase group access for students and educators, making OWL available as a classroom, supplemental learning, wellness, or health literacy resource.
- Group Access for Healthcare Institutions — Hospitals, health systems, clinics, and other healthcare organizations can purchase group access to OWL Health Pro for healthcare professionals.
- Engaging activities that reinforce learning and support skill development.