While Universal Pre-K and 3K are urgent, as kids grow in the city they face a lot more problems. More than 1,500 kids under 16 are held in juvenile detention facilities. Some are as young as 10. Though the state has made improvements with “Raise the Age,” there is much more to be done. Councilwoman Gibson, who has pushed for criminal justice reform, talks about what needs to be done to provide alternatives to incarceration, which would prevent another from being generation lost to the system. Randi Levine will talk about Advocates for Children’s efforts to stem the “school-to-prison pipeline,” where kids who fall through the cracks in the education system and get little to no guidance, almost inevitably end up in the prison system.