My question involves public health law in the State of: California
I was a patient in a program to help homeless women receive counseling and housing. Part of the program involved working for the non profit as part of a grant program. The counselor who was responsible for mentoring the women in this program revealed false health information to my supervisor in order to discredit me. One day after work the supervisor called me to inform me about my work evaluation. He had spoken to the counselor who said that I should not receive the high scores that were given on my evaluation. My supervisor said she revealed some medical information from my intake interview in order to cast me in a negative light. He was flustered by her remarks and so concerned that he called me to get my feedback. He could tell by my character and work ethic that her remarks were likely untrue and intended to hurt my credibility. I also suspect that she'd probably made unprofessional remarks about others so he called to see if her remarks held any merit at all.
This just added more distress to an extremely difficult situation.
I stayed in the program because I had nowhere else to go. Fortunately, my supervisor was helpful and chose to base his opinion of me on my work. I have other concerns, should I post here or in another post?
Is there a verifiable HIPPA violation in this case? The counselor brought up a personal medical issue to a nonmedical person as a reason to mark down my performance evaluation. Can I file suit?

