Humboldt County Discriminates Against Injured Mental Health Worker

Stan Cavers is likely known to some of you as someone who's commented here in the past. He lives in California and is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Back in the spring, he took a job as a kind of peer mental health worker up in Humboldt County. Not long after, he was attacked by a patient whom he was checking on. Cavers suffered a serious concussion and other injuries.

Now, the County is trying to fire Cavers because he couldn't report to work in June due to the concussion and post-concussion syndrome (rather similar to the NY Mets outfielder who has only recently returned to the team), it is fighting his workers compensation claim and Cavers is without legal help of any kind. He's tried contacting numerous attorneys who won't touch his case (probably not much money in it for them) and mental health advocacy groups, which have ignored Cavers. There's much more on all of this here.

This is one of the most wicked examples I have seen in ages of a mental health bureaucracy run amok. It'd be great if any readers who may know of a lawyer in California who can help Cavers would reach out to him. It'd also be really cool if some of you went over to his blog and left him some comments.