The Clinchco Center is a visible link between the black and white communities in Clinchco, Virginia. Its mission is to provide a resource for education, skill development, creative expression, social interaction, and individual and collective empowerment for the entire community.

One of the specific requests that the women at the Center made was to learn how to use computers. "Most of the women had never used a computer before and when the classes started, they didn't even know how to turn them on," said Jennifer Mock, a member of the Young Women's Alliance and the computer class teacher. So Jennifer started out by explaining very basic parts of the computer, how to turn it on, what each thing on the desktop meant, and what different things did. Then, the women started to practice typing with the Mavis Beacon typing program.