In addition to the newsletter, readers are provided with an opportunity to engage in Club Amick through contests and initiatives. The highly successful post card contest and poetry contest encourages readers to use Club Amick book selection themes to express their artistic side through photographs, drawings and crafts. Winners of the contests received prizes along with a personal letter from E.T. the librarian and Amick.

Initiatives include the school twining program in which Club Amick readers and readers from southern communities share their love of reading through an exchange of e-mails and letters. As a result, in 2008, Club Amick readers from the Rev. Eleazar Winter Memorial School in Wapekeka First Nation met with a group of readers from Smithfield Middle School in Etobicoke, Ontario. Club Amick is also asking readers to submit material for a calendar initiative. Readers have an opportunity to use their imagination by helping to create a school calendar that highlights their reading activities during the school year and over the summer. We will collect material from all 35 Club Amick communities and make a school calendar which will be distributed to all schools in the communities.

Club Amick contests and initiatives are meant to encourage literacy among members and fostering family, school and community participation. Club Amick staff work closely with Club Amick schools and community support services to enhance literacy among Club Amick readers.