Family support and positive parenting is significant for improvement of parental resources and competencies necessary for raising children, education, health protection, welfare protection, and rights protection. The main purpose of this article is identification and the analysis of accredited training programs that are related to family support and positive parenting, and are available to professionals in social welfare system of Republic of Serbia in order to assess availability of expert’s modern knowledge on positive parenting in social welfare system in Republic of Serbia. Programs are mapped from catalogue of accredited training programs on family support, which can be found on platform of Republic Institute for Social Protection. Programs are chosen by random sampling method. It has been analyzed 15 of 37 program summaries by using desk analysis. This work gives a display of family support and positive parenting concept, and indicate on significance of professionals training for application of these concepts in practice. This work also analyzes legal normative frame that defines training programs as one of possible forms of professional development. It has shown that training programs are mostly focused on family as a whole, while its’ focus on parenting is less – well represented. Realization of training programs is conducted in groups, and their duration is different as well, between 6 to 40 hours. For majority of analyzed programs, we lack transparent data on methods that are used for knowledge and skills transferring to professionals, used training techniques, and monitoring. Data on a number of trained professionals and used evaluation studies on program effects, are not actually available. Given data are discussed in the light of modern theoretical approaches and research, and they give us guidelines for improvement in this scope of work. The conclusion is that training programs offer a wide range of general knowledge and skills for working with families, while specific knowledge and skills for provision of support and strengthening parental competencies for positive parenting are modest. In order to organize and provide quality support to family and parental competencies, it is necessary to develop new training programs that will offer professionals modern knowledge and a repertoire of specific skills.