Abriendo Caminos: Engaging Latinos

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a culturally responsive peer-delivered motivational interviewing intervention can enhance mental health treatment engagement in Latinos with serious mental illness. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How feasible is it to recruit 30 Latinos with serious mental illness into a 6 week treatment engagement intervention? * How acceptable is the intervention to Latinos with serious mental illness? Participants will: * Receive six sixty-minute sessions * Complete weekly measures, along with pre-, post-, 30-day, and 60-day post-intervention assessments

Inclusion Criteria: * Meet criteria for serious mental illness * Not in treatment * 18 years of age or older * Reside in CT * Self-identify as Latino * Speak English and/or Spanish * History of trauma * Have not received any treatment in the past 30 days * Willing and able to be contacted for follow-up Exclusion Criteria: * Individuals in formal mental health treatment in the past 30 days * Have a life-threatening or unstable medical, surgical, or psychiatric condition * Inability to provide \> 1 form of contact information * Anticipate being unable to return for a follow-up assessment * Reported active risk of suicide or homicide * Fail capacity to consent * Cognitively impaired * Currently in jail or other overnight facilities as required by courts or law