About 100 business and community leaders attended the breakfast, with guests including Triple M presenter and Gotcha4Life founder Gus Worland, and Tomorrow Man and Tomorrow Woman facilitator Andy Dennis.

It was an emotional event, following the tragic passing of two former students by suicide this summer, which has devastated the school and wider community.

Worland and Dennis gave a moving, interactive presentation on how the community needs to be focusing on mental fitness, resilience and support.

Worland founded Gotcha4Life, a non-for-profit mental health foundation, after he lost a close friend to suicide.

"We've got to be able to help men and boys so they can share their emotions, and teach them that being open, honest and vulnerable is the best way to be," he said.

Gotcha4Life supports Tomorrow Man and Tomorrow Woman, which deliver workshops around Australia to redefine masculinity and reconnect women with their authentic voice.

The breakfast laid the ground work for developing links with the community to allow programs such as Tomorrow Man and Tomorrow Woman to be run in the school and in the broader Kurri Kurri community.

The school also will integrate mental fitness into its range of ever-evolving wellbeing programs.

Kurri Kurri High's school values coordinator Sara Da Silva said the school has previously targeted its energy and resources toward interventions, programs and events mainly within our school gates.

"This year, we would like to continue to branch out and engage meaningfully within the wider community, making sure the community, parents and carers are aware of the things we are doing as a school to build a holistic approach to student wellbeing," she said.

"There is no magic wand to wellbeing but what does work is a united approach to change the culture within the school and community around wellbeing and in particular mental health.

"Young people are our most valuable commodity."

The breakfast also included a presentation by the school's boys' education group, The Real Man Project.

Following on from their White Ribbon mural in 2018 and awareness walk last year, the group of year 9 and 10 boys hope to hold a 24-hour walk this November.

They also plan to hold a gratitude showcase night for parents and carers, and a community assist day to offer their services to people in the Kurri Kurri community.