Another resource that you can call on for help is your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), which provides free one-on-one Medicare counseling in person or over the phone.
"So, can't you call someone from work?" Mr Ex urged recently when a back injury transformed me from able to disabled in the course of a day and I realised, with horror, that he was one of the few people in my support system I could call on for help.
Without a family in the country to call on for help, poor international students are vulnerable and overlooked.
He and our daughter both earn $15 an hour, but he has no family to call on for help.
Patrice Coffin, Carondelet's executive director, points out that unlike in traditional public schools, where there are local district resources to call on for help with financing or recruitment, charter school principals must manage everything themselves.
Foster had a small group of deep-pocketed alumni he could call on for help with big-ticket expenses like a new furnace, but the smaller donations he coaxed from the middle-class graduates were the school's real economic engine.
Who can you call on for help?
While it may seem obvious, whom you call on for help will depend on what you need done.
Education about women's rights and the services available to women who are experiencing IPV were also said to deter men from beating their partners, because they knew that there were people their partners could call on for help, so there may be some consequences of their actions.
