Objective: This study is a collaboration with a CYRRC project from the Language and Learning cluster to explore the relationship between learning and well-being in Syrian refugee children.

Justification: Syrian refugee children represent a population at high risk for problems in both cognitive functioning and well-being. There are well established associations between children’s learning capability and well-being in the general population, but this relationship has not been examined in refugee children.

Practical goal: to identify rates of cognitive and mental health problems among refugee children, the extent to which learning and mental health influence each other over time, and parents’ concerns, service use, and gaps in service with respect to children’s learning and well-being since arriving in Canada.

Primary audience: educators, service providers, academics, and refugee families