The Cuban Experience in Florida: Revolution and Exodus
State Plan for Assistance to Cuban Refugees, Florida
This document provided information to administrators and employees of the Cuban Refugee Assistance Program (CRA). This document also contains examples of the forms (blank) filled out by case workers for the CRA. The CRA provided health, employment and education services to Cuban refugees in the United States. The program, approved by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, was administered by the Florida Department of Public Welfare until 1974.
The chart for food distribution on page 11 illustrates the need to supply Cuban refugees with basic food commodities upon their arrival in the United States.