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Abriendo Caminos: Engaging Latinos

Abriendo Caminos: Engaging Latino Communities Through Culturally Responsive Peer Delivered Motivational Interviewing

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · All sexes

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

About the study

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

What is being tested

• Culturally responsive motivational interviewing (behavioral)

Sponsor: Yale University · Participants: 30 · Started: Jul 9, 2026

Contact the study team

• Oscar F Rojas Perez, PhD · Phone: 203-940-7869

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07529509

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 1, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.