Hope Not Handcuffs has launched in the Town of Wallkill. 

The program is a partnership with local organizations like Tri-County Community Partnership and the Town of Wallkill Police Department. 

Anyone with a drug or alcohol addiction can walk into the police department and ask for help. An officer will call an angel volunteer, who will coordinate with a trained officer to get the person the treatment they need. 

The goal of this initiative is to help someone with addiction feel comfortable enough to get help without the fear of arrest. 

But Hope Not Handcuffs could use about 25 more angel volunteers who can give "compassion, respect, and kindness" to people who come in. 

"We know that people are nervous about this process, but we feel that just being someone who cares about another individual, being the person that's sitting in front of them and helping them get into treatment, we feel that's a comforting part of it," said Annette Kahrs, Tri-County Community Partnership president.

For more information on the program, or if you would like to be an angel volunteer, you can head to the Tri-County Community Partnership's website