STATE GIVES $50,000 TO HEALTH CENTER.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)

Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer

State officials on Tuesday announced a $500,000 grant to the Whitney M. Young Health Center in Arbor Hill, which provides medical services to people with little or no health insurance.

The money is coming from a state Assembly discretionary fund through Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, and is advocated by Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari, D-Cohoes. It will be used to implement the health center's strategic business plan for 2000, officials said.

The plan calls for increasing the enrollment of uninsured children in the Child Care Health Plus Insurance program, which provides dental, medical and some eye care …