Angela Castro
Chief of Staff
Angela Castro is Chief of Staff at Acadia Healthcare. In this role, Ms. Castro provides direct support to executive team members and enterprise leadership through her decision-making and implementation of strategy efforts which impact the organization at all levels. She works to organize and improve existing complex procedures, ensuring optimal efficiency and productivity and develops large-scale initiative blueprints for novel projects within the enterprise. Often managing these substantial projects from their inception to their execution, she coordinates crucial communications between varying levels of leadership and Acadia’s executives.
In her previous role, Ms. Castro was Acadia’s Divisional Director of Business Development and was responsible for the management of 28 facilities across the eastern United States and Puerto Rico. She worked extensively on the development of joint venture partnerships within her division and demonstrated her ability to drive desirable outcomes through her expertise regarding strategy development, market needs and trends, branding and project management. From 2015 to 2019, Ms. Castro served as the Director of Business Development at Acadia’s Belmont Behavioral Health System in Philadelphia, PA, where she was a driving force behind innovative programs and partnerships and set the industry standard for behavioral healthcare marketing efforts.
Ms. Castro has over 20 years of experience in the behavioral healthcare arena, beginning with positions focused on methadone maintenance and substance use marketing before her transition to psychiatric treatment options. Prior to joining Acadia in 2015, she specialized in market trends and branding through her roles as Director of Business Development (First Hospital of Wyoming Valley | Kingston, PA) and Community Liaison (Horsham Clinic | Ambler, PA).
Ms. Castro earned a Bachelor of Applied Sciences Degree in Business Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services from Cedar Crest College in 2002. She currently serves on the Pediatric Gala Board at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, as well as the Center City Cohesion Board of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
