Let's dream a little bit. Let's list every possible option. Your role now is to help your friend get a broad perspective on every possibility. After you get all of the possible solutions out in front, ask him to tell you about each possible solution. Now you are encouraging your friend not only to own the problem but also to own any solution that will come.
Resources can be friends, acquaintances, or any skills and abilities.
Resources are also found in the Scriptures, in fellowship with a group of believers, and knowing God in a personal way. Help your friend to think through and list the resources he or she might use. You should help your friend think through a timetable as well as accountability and responsibility. Helping a friend through a crisis, is a large undertaking. But if you have done it careful, not only have you helped your friend through this crisis, but you also have taught your friend how to work through future problems.