This is a great community for kids. Endless activities. Kids are able to walk to school and other activities on their own. A very safe community for children.

For pregnant moms: "Healthy Moms Healthy Babies" (monthly luncheons, resource centre, nutritional information, support programme for new moms and special events for families with babies), First Nations Prenatal Nutrition Programme, prenatal classes. "Klondike Kreamers" breast feeding social group (the Yukon boasts the highest breast feeding rate in Canada.)

For preschoolers: Time Out (supervised play for kids ages 1-6 one half day per week to give parents some time off); Preschool for ages 3-5 (afternoons, Jan to April); Toy Lending Library; Story Time at the community library once a week for kids age 3-5; Child Development Programme; 2 Daycare facilities; Summer day camp for preschoolers. Parent and Tot swim programme (summers). Two playgrounds.

School age: Supervised programming for both kids 7-11 and teenagers: The Arts Centre organizes music (piano, flute, guitar and violin), dance, theatre and art courses. The Recreation Dept organizes ice hockey, weight training (including a girls only programme) floor hockey, soccer, kick boxing, karate, aikikai, badminton, basketball, volley ball, football, golf, swimming, tennis, bicycle safety course, summer Day Camp for ages 6 to 10, summer Drama Camp, summer Arts Camp, bike trips, camping trips, canoe trips and water safety courses, kids triathlon, Youth Minds Programme (a club for kids age 10-12). Kids Club (after-school programme for kids ages 6-12). The community library organizes a Summer Reading Club.

High School: Junior Rangers (survival skills for the bush, camping and hunting and fishing skills) The town's Rec Dept. Youth Centre with supervised movie nights, youth dances, car washes, jam nights to learn and play electric guitar and drums, supervised road trips for snow-boarding weekends, camping trips, bike trips, canoe trips, career/university scouting trip for high school girls to Vancouver. First Hunt (supervised caribou hunt including gun safety, orienteering, animal tracking and community feast for youth aged 10-16 organized by the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation). Plus a host of winter and summer sports and recreation leagues (see Recreation).

Arctic Winter Games. March. A week long event for winter sports (including some aboriginal games) for kids from the Yukon, NWT, Nunuvit, Russia, Greenland, Alaska and Northern Alberta. A week of highly organized friendly competition and cultural events for kids form different northern cultures. Held in a different country every year. The 2002 Games were held in Nunuvit and Greenland.

Canada Winter Games: The Yukon sponsors teams comprised of Yukon youth from all the communities to participate at the Canada Games, held every other year at a different city in Canada.

At holiday times there are community Easter Egg Hunts, a Haunted House and Halloween Party, and a Christmas Gingerbread Party organized for the kids of Dawson.